Sentences with phrase «like up to a decade»

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During the go - go days of the last decade, business travel hotels spiffed up their rooms with amenities like in - room entertainment systems to persuade guests to make a long weekend of a short trip.

It's totally easy to wake up one day and feel like a year or even a decade has passed in a blur.

In the last decade, disruptive chains like Zara and H&M have trained consumers to expect up - to - the - minute trends in stores faster, cheaper, and with greater selection.

The print - advertising revenue that used to prop up the business models of newspaper chains like Gannett and Tribune's former parent, Tribune Co., has disintegrated over the past decade as advertisers and readers have moved to digital platforms like Facebook and Google.

The city, like the rest of the U.S., was stuck in a decades - long entrepreneurial slump that had left its economy dependent on a handful of big, staid corporations — corporations that were pulling up stakes to head overseas at a rate that alarmed local leaders.

For the last decade, the renminbi was largely moving in a single direction — up — because China was tired of being dubbed a currency manipulator and it would like to foster consumerism.

Doesn't Chaput realize, Reid says, that the stagnation of the Catholic Church in America can be chalked up to «the right wing» like Chaput himself that «has controlled the Church hierarchy for some three decades now»?

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

They embrace nut cases like this for immediate attention... It is all catching up to them as the party will fall apart in the next decade.

Looks like a smoke screen to try and divert attention away from decades of cover - up from the male employees of the catholic church committing «wrong doings.»

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

Muslims make up crap that suits them depending on what their stance of the day is, when he was alive 1/2 these nuts were saying he doesn't represent islam, now he's dead and tossed into the sea, he is the poster boy for islam, if they wanted to give him an islamic funeral to their liking they should have caught him and killed him themselves, rather than sheltering and hiding him for a decade.

It took us a decade and a half to gather up the courage and the funds to do this, and these past few months have brought some of the most trying times for us as a family, but it finally feels like it was worth it and I'm so excited to share some snaps of Golubka Kitchen HQ with you.

Bill Martin, who lived on Oahu for nearly three decades and is now a Big Island resident, summed it up best when he told me, «As you might imagine, going to a hotel luau is like looking for real barbecue at Tony Roma's.»

I don't understand why Wenger still wants to remain so secretive about his targets, when most of the time he messes it up himself by under bidding by a country mile for the player and it's not as if the other clubs are spying on his transfer activities, like they used to, a decade ago.

Why do u defend wenger like we fans don't have decades of evidence to back us up on how incompetent he is??? Please tell me why a team that didn't win the league went out and only brought in cech in a whole summer??? Please tell me why players contracts are all running down??

It feels like if I didn't say anything — if I ran out of the room right then, sobbing — he'd just tidy up a few papers on his desk and go back about his job of being Barry Alvarez, the former Badgers head coach who took Wisconsin to three Rose Bowls after decades of irrelevance, then signed the check for his own bronze statue as the school's athletic director.

Its either that or he pulls the old «its just a marketing thing where Im endangering children and setting public neuroscience awareness back decades in order to make a couple million extra dollars out of the pockets of suckers» defense, and I just do nt see how a humble classy guy like Wilson would ever cheapen his name by lending it to a bottle of snake oil that could wind up giving its purchasers real - world neurological damage if they were to use it in a manner consistent with what Wilson tells them.

I would like to see Wenger step up onto the board tho, I would like Arsenal to bring in a younger manager who can last a good decade with us and for Wenger and the new manager to work closely to keep the attractive style of football that Wenger desires to play and bringing youths through etc but a manager who can focus on nothing but the team and team performance.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

I like them both, Bellerin has blistering pace and Chambers is wise beyond his years, I think we have a fantastic duo coming up to cover our D for the next decade.

Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role at Man.

(unfortunately banks do nt buy in to we will win the league for the next decade to give out money) from the cub before they lend then shed lots of cash, and this unfortunately leads to clubs putting up there ticket prices to reflect the cost of big progress, so people sometimes have to realize that the club has to find a way to make club grow, and if they do nt have deep pocketed owners then they have to pitch to the banks for a loan, like we did all those years ago an we are just over the worst of it now we have paid our dues and are now getting back among the big boys again.

There aren't too many players up there who will look like a bad yearbook haircut in a decade, which is what I was trying to avoid.

The Gunners have really been up against it there, no more so than finding ourselves 2 - 0 down in last year's final against Hull City when the long wait for a trophy looked like stretching to a full decade.

Also I must say Roy Keane is the only footballer past or present that has had the ability to make all others around them up their game, ive never known anybody else like him past or present, for a decade he was the first name on SAF team sheet before Cantana, scholes, giggs, beckham stam and the rest, the reason why he was the first name on the team was because he was the most important player, probably in the whole of the Sir Alex era, and to say Carrick was more important than Keane and Scholes does not surprise me with you Opik (You claimed we should sell RVP and Rooney to play Bebe and Welbeck) but it once again proves you talk complete bollocks

At the time this felt like an amazing season to make a major cup final for the first time in decades and stay up.

More like this... Sevilla's 2006 UEFA Cup triumph England's U21 epic Ireland - Scotland in 1986 Galatasaray win historic UEFA Cup Benzema and Nasri among 2004 vintage Trezeguet sets up Juve for Madrid win Chelsea's 2005 title winners a decade on When Benfica beat Mourinho's Porto When Monaco stunned mighty Madrid Barcelona silence Madrid at the Bernabéu Ronaldo's Old Trafford standing ovation Liverpool's Istanbul heroes Juve snatch last - eight spot from Werder Batistuta ends Roma's long title wait When Ajax overcame 3 - 1 loss Italy survive to reach World Cup final Maradona's Napoli reign supreme, 1989 When Paris beat Barcelona's dream team

I also don't want to be in a position that I spend another decade like this and end up separating anyway at the end.

In all these decades there was only one officer in the Department of Health, the chief medical officer of the late 1940s, Dr James Deeny who had the courage to speak up and speak out, to make the connections about institutions like Bessborough and about what women needed by way of better maternity services which had to be truly, unambiguously without contradiction, publicly accountable.

Even a decade later, The Streets were including lines like: «And to the government I stick my middle finger up with regards to the criminal justice bill».

It ignores the facts - that illicit tobacco has been in sustained decline for more than a decade, and that the claimed relationship with health measures like plain packs or tax hikes do not stand up to scrutiny.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business world.

Unlike some brain regions, which have been swallowing up earnest grad students like quicksand for decades without yielding a clue to their functions, the hippocampus is well - explored territory.

Two decades of searching have failed to turn up another planetary system like ours.

«We showed that there are short - term outcomes, like more acute illness among shorter - sleeping adolescents, that don't require waiting months, years or decades to show up,» Orzech continued.

Researchers have known for decades that if you cool liquid helium just a few degrees below its boiling point of — 452 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--- 269 degrees Celsius) it will suddenly be able to do things that other fluids can't, like dribble through molecule - thin cracks, climb up and over the sides of a dish, and remain motionless when its container is spun.

He felt trapped like a bug inside glass — an ironic epiphany for a man who would work so hard to seal up a handful of his followers three decades hence.

The project relies on volunteer researchers like Moon, from graduate students to those with decades of experience, who sign up to fact - check mainstream media stories that claim to be based on science.

So over decades, I had read all sorts of stories about people who had gone out into the wilds and explored the unknown, and I thought that if we could just focus on the central experiences of their lives, I could condense all sorts of stories into just chapter length tales and put a bunch of them together, sort of show the whole arc of the discovery of the idea of evolution and really where we stand today, right up to very recent things like Neanderthal DNA and the discovery of some recent transitional fossils.

...» Could go into hiding for decades» study finds — Discovery.com — March 2, 2009 — And See: «Global temps have flat lined since 2001... This is nothing like anything we've seen since 1950... Cooling trend could last for up to 30 years» — June 22, 2009)

How would you like your decades of research on a field's central problem to be summed up by the statement that «these objects [chondrules] remain as enigmatic as ever»?

Although we do enjoy grassfed unpasteurized dairy in our home and have for nearly 2 decades, I like to mix things up by using other non-dairy beverages such as almond milk, rice milk and coconut milk too.

Looking back a decade sounded like too much fun to pass up and a great opportunity to reminisce....

For those twenty something girls who would like to look respectable at the office with adding a decade on their look, this flared skirt teamed with a simple boxy jacket are a pick - me - up set.

I tried to make overalls like this late last Summer, with the Decades of Style pattern, and unfortunately I had so much trouble with it that I just gave up and wasted a lot of denim.

From vintage inspired details to genuine pieces from previous decades, we've rounded up seven stunning brides who look like they belong in another era.

Yes... I have used many products over the last decade, but just like make - up or soda pop, we are creatures of habit and usually stick to the brand that we like the most and that does the job for what our needs are.

No, I didn't really delve into all the books like I had earlier in the decade, but I certainly became much more interested in Bats himself and I picked up quite a few comic anthologies to get me back into the swing of things.