Sentences with phrase «abandoned in decades past»

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It's been my, albeit limited, experience that as the Calvinist believers that I've associated with these past four decades have come to know the Lord Jesus closely in their walk, they have either abandoned their belief in predestination or it has faded far into the background in importance in their theology.

Divorce was not a big issue for children in decades past, but they were often abandoned, sold into slavery, indentured into domestic service, orphaned at childbirth by their «normal» families.

For the past several decades, farmers have been abandoning their plows in favor of a practice known as no - till agriculture.

The vast majority of states underwent pension reforms in the past decade to address the financial challenges of pension underfunding and none abandoned their defined benefit pensions.

Engine downsizing has been the subject of much discussion over the past decade or so, with truck automakers abandoning large - displacement V - 8s in favor of efficient, powerful - enough V - 6 engines.

His gallery at County Hall on the South Bank issued an even more forthright statement to cheer a generation of painters abandoned in the wilderness for the past decade.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.