Sentences with phrase «age is in the offing»

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

Not exact matches

Handy: Theoretically, the amount in private equity should be larger early on and taper off over time as they get closer to retirement age.

Why have we made more progress on certain diseases while other mass - scale killers, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are largely off of people's radars and so difficult to treat in an age of therapies which can resemble magic?

If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not, and particularly in an age of social media when so many people are getting their information in sound bites and off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.

It was unclear if she would face charges, but an 80 - year - old woman who did the same thing in 2016 was let off the hook due to her age.

But in his experience with retirees, he's noticed a tendency for consumption levels to drop off after age 75; this reduced need for withdrawals helps cancel out the increase needed to keep up with inflation.

The allure of that: Every month you put it off, up to age 70, the amount you're paid in the future rises.

Apparently, audiences were not interested in seeing a nearly three - hour - long movie about a robotic alien truck eluding the clutches of an intergalactic bounty hunter by joining forces with prehistoric robot dinosaurs — that would be Transformers: Age of Extinction — or that one where Tom Cruise is repeatedly killed while fending off an alien invasion... or something.

But their cons were a little harder to pull off in an age when there weren't thousands of bloggers rushing to be the first to publish a post raving about what the visionary con artist said at the latest festival fetishizing «innovation.»

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among 1087 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the average amount of vacation time given to employed workers is about 4 weeks (3.7), while the self - employed take a similar amount of time off (4.0 weeks, on average).

Wölffer Estate Vineyard, founded in 1988 on a 55 - acre former potato farm, was the passion project of Christian Wölffer, a German - born venture capitalist who tragically died in 2008 at age 70 in a swimming accident off the Brazilian coast.

If you adjust the projections to account for the rising employment rate of people like Levitt, the drop - off in retirees» spending as they age, and the value of fourth - pillar assets, Canadians may well be over-saving for retirement, Vettese adds.

It may sounds old - fashioned in the age of texting and social media, but it can be a highly effective way to get a friendship off the ground.

While lawyers and advisers say it's common to hire investigators to do opposition research in the context of a proxy campaign, executives» kids — of any age — are typically considered off - limits.

In this age of neo-xenophobia and socially acceptable open bigotry what I have to say will be tough to pull off without sounding like the knuckle dragging brutes thirsty for the blood of «job - stealing foreigners.»

Alone, it's not a cure for the aging brain — we're still some way off from that — but at this point, all indications are that it's the surest means of prolonging the mental sweet spot we enjoy in middle age.

When these «energy factories» are topped off, neurons in the brain may be better able to ward off stress from age - related brain diseases that ordinarily exhaust or kill the cells.

In 1999 (age 39, 2 small kids) my total savings was 99K (I paid off my house by 2000).

I realized at age 32 that «a job» was NEVER going to get me to my «freedom number»; that is, the amount of money in passive income that allows you to jump off the grid — or, if you will, no longer rely on «earned income.»

Chrysler has thrown more money at the brand in the last year on its media spending — $ 265.3 million in 2010, up 71 % from 2009 according to Ad Age Data Center research — and it's paid off.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

Stock market history is founded on an age - old practice of wanting to invest in an enterprise and make money off its performance, and today, that is no different.

«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.

If I choose to RE in five years (age 47 with 10 years left on the mortgage), I will have to part with a chunk of cash to pay off my mortgage.

Not that pre-Boomers are any better off: Federal Reserve data indicate that up to 21 percent of seniors age 75 and over had mortgage debt in 2011.

Paying off credit card debt is a major concern for those aged between 35 and 44, according to the GOBankingRates survey, but 1 in 5 say sticking to a budget is their biggest challenge.

As most of the investment research suggests, the investor is better off setting an asset allocation, in line with one's age and risk tolerance, and sticking with it.

At an age in which our government seeks to widen the gap between the religious and the secular maybe the State would be better off the back off the idea of regulating plural marriage.

Parents will ransack attics for pieces of fabric — the more brilliant and exotic the better — and someone in the family will create a costume that will be linked to no particular age or time or culture but will somehow speak of far - off places, distant shores, desert sands and starry skies — all at the same time.

The Church is sorting and casting off, renewing and re-establishing in the postmodern age and this is a good thing.

Apart from the obvious fact that if Jesus had experienced the troubles of old age the Incarnation might have seemed of little relevance to those who are cut off in youth by violent death in battle or otherwise, old age, although a far more general condition in our time than ever before, is still not a part of the universal lot of man.

This is the age when the Holy Spirit is fulfilling the promise made in Isaiah (56: 2 - 8) that after the Messiah comes and the new covenant is established, those who are sexually different, who were formerly excluded from the community of God, will have a special place in the house of the Lord and «an everlasting name which shall not be cut off.»

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

Those in their sixties seem cut off in their prime, and those at or below (to pick a not quite random number) age fifty - eight have been deprived of their youth.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she liveIn preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Many younger women who disapprove of abortion nevertheless do not want the legal option to be closed off because they realize that circumstances may conceivably arise in which they might need to exercise the abortion option, but beyond a certain age threshold there is probably diminished empathy with less «analytical» younger women, who should now, their elders conclude, be compelled by the State to carry an accidental pregnancy to term.

It was, however, a very emotional ride, and at the age of 48 I went off to Bible college and lived in the dorms with the kids.

I place myself in the mortalist camp because for the time being, and probably much longer, aging and death will remain our fate, put off and ameliorated perhaps, but not vanquished.

As differentiation continues, various genes are «switched off» but stem cells, even in adults, retain a certain pluripotency in order to produce fully differentiated cells lost by damage or ageing.

And everyone who thinks that salvation depends of a bit of skin on or off is still living in the middle ages!

Again, in the following verse, we have the same kind of useage... = AGE - LASTING CLV Mt 18:8 Now, if your * hand or your * foot is snaring you, strike it off and cast it from you.

In their logarithmic timescale they started with 15 billion years as the age of the universe, which is incorrect and throw off their 6 days of creation.

Included are the times of internal testing, when a crisis occurs in the marriage itself as the shifting tides of circumstance and the pressures of aging throw the relationship off balance for a while.

Horn in an Italian papal state in 1225, Aquinas was shipped off by his family to a nearby monastery when he was only five years of age.

Besides I can't see why Jesus could not have been married because in those days most men of that age were, the parents of the brides were anxious to get them married off and if the guys were offered a good dowary of course they married thereby increasing their own status in the community.

the church had it's day and age... our time has come in this age of information and technology to throw off the shackles of religion and as free thinking creatures and take center stage.

Enter David Brooks, whose newest column tells us the Romantic vision of genius is being shrugged off in a technological age.

Or is Luther's age showing through; is he a boor who, in his anger and agitation no longer capable of self - control, casts off the academic whitewash and falls back into the language of his origins?

A critical question is how brave can we be as we begin to design a new sort of world order and how brave can we be in casting off our religious and other prejudices that belong to another age in order to remold them in the service of a new world?