Sentences with phrase «brutal years of»

After a brutal year of being copied by the world's biggest social network, Snapchat might be wise to return the favor.

Not exact matches

Together, these brutal malignancies kill an estimated 250,000 people each year — many of them in the poorest countries on the planet.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's (aapl) iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

The Canadian mining sector has been in people's bad books for years, while energy shows few signs of rebounding after brutal performances in both 2014 and 2015.

It's an 11,000 - word gem that reads like 3,000, a clear, precise, and brutal evisceration of Facebook and the havoc it has wrought on the news industry — and itself — for the last two years.

But three years of a brutal war of attrition failed to elicit a surrender from either side.

He's also a fighting champion, putting his undefeated record on the line four times in the past two years, most notably in two absolutely brutal victories over Sergey Kovalev to become the unified light heavyweight champion of the world.

News about Uber has been brutal so far in this fragment of a year.

The year since hackers broke into Target and accessed millions of credit and debit card numbers has been a brutal one for cyberattacks.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

Zimbabwe's virtual dictator Robert Mugabe has been one of the world's most brutal, corrupt, and just plain evil leaders for 35 + years.

Frazier's decision to step down from the council came after President Trump failed to immediately condemn head - on the white supremacists whose rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend led to violence — including the brutal death of a 32 - year - old counter-protester.

Summary: «Six years after a brutal virus wipes out most of Scandinavia's population, two siblings join a band of young survivors seeking safety — and answers.»

Synopsis: «Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, Batman, with the help of Catwoman, is forced from his exile to save Gotham City, now on the edge of total annihilation, from the brutal guerrilla terrorist Bane.»

Like the rest of the country, 18 - year - old Shahul Hameed from Kerala, reacted to the brutal rape and murder of the eight - year - old Kathua girl by venting his ire against Prime Mini...

A brutal assessment of the bailout terms facing Athens by the International Monetary Fund calls for substantial debt relief for a further 30 years

The last instance was at the start of a dramatic bull market for stocks — 1982 — when 16 years of brutal consolidation were finally shaken off and the 1966 top was left in the dust.

What I did: The first two years of work in NYC was brutal.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

In any case, one of the great catastrophes of the past decade, and in particular of this recession, is the slippage of today's inner cities back toward the depths of those brutal years.

After five years of a brutal bear market, gold and gold miners are finally having a huge rebound, and investor Chen Lin, writer of the popular newsletter What is Chen Buying?

This year's brutal hurricane season has given us a multitude of opportunities to reduce risks for the next inevitable brutal season, whenever it comes.

That was a bit worse than even the estimate based on a terminal P / E of 7, because the brutal 1974 bottom formed a sharp but temporary «V.» In contrast, in the 10 years beginning in 1990 (when the price / peak - earnings ratio was close to 11), the S&P 500 achieved a total return of fully 20 % annually.

As we all know, 2008 was the start of the Great Recession and a brutal year in the stock market.

If you want to say God was immoral you could argue subjecting the Chosen Ones to 430 years of brutal oppressive slavery in Egypt was immoral.

Christianity's power lies in it's nearly 2000 years of brutal fear - mongering.

For 10 years, Grand Theft Auto IV has presented players with a playground of possibility, but ever since its release in 2008, players have leveraged those possibilities to partake in impulsive, elaborate, often brutal crime.

The project is under attack by a Jewish group that terms it «a throwback to Germany under Hitler,» recalling the «buy Christian» campaigns that started in Germany in the 1930s, and that resulted in a widespread refusal to trade with Jewish merchants in the years preceding the Third Reich's more brutal acts of anti-Semitism.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

Twenty people accused of being involved in the brutal killing of a Christian couple in Pakistan more than three years ago have been acquitted.

The Archbishop of Manila has called for an end to the «waste of human lives» following a brutal week in President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war in which dozens were killed including a 17 year old boy.

No one has ever managed to do that, after hundreds of years of wild claims of talking snakes, virgin birth, and rising from the dead, as well as the brutal tales of vicious, vindictive, bible god.

Ten years later, Christian reflection must focus on the role Rwandan Christians played in the swiftest and in some ways most brutal genocide of the 20th century.

No less salient is anti-Americanism, from Philip Caputo («You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen - year - old American boy») to Toni Morrison («At no point in my life have I ever felt as though I were American»).»

Speaking during it he said: «It is literally heartbreaking to learn of the attacks on Christians and on the churches where they gather, such as the mindless, brutal destruction of the Armenian church in Deir el - Zour earlier this year.»

And it probably would have stayed like that but for Beverly Young Nelson, a woman who accused Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was 16 years old — the most brutal allegation yet.

As long as mankind is what they are, there will NEVER be peace among us, certainly not global peace in any meaningful sense, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either dangerously naïve or pathetically stupid, frankly.Knock the dust off your Bible, Benedict!The great Apostle Paul predicted today's situatio perfectly over 2,000 years ago, and I quote: «But know this: difficult times will come in the last days.For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, loversof pleasures rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of religion but denying its power»... (2nd Timothy 3:1 - 5)- Hello!

so what ever this endless blo - odshed is resulting now is because of such action has become a burden on America and the Americans whether this was planed by them or have been misled by Kurds or by those countries who were fearing S - adam regime in the area... which I am sure their turn would be coming sooner or latter to pay their dues to humanity as a whole for the losses and grieve they have caused all those years of emb - argo and followed by the brutal inv - asion...

Even at the end of the original (1953) version of Brother to Dragons, the «tale in verse and voices» which dramatizes the brutal murder of a slave by two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews and constitutes a meditation on sin, guilt, history and much else, the narrator (this time called R. P. W.) replies to his own father, who has inquired whether, having visited the murder site so many years later, his son has now finished with his purpose: «Yes, I've finished.

We can not know when or whether one thoroughbred colt will win all three of the toughest three - year - old races, in only five weeks, finishing with the brutal mile - and - a-half at Belmont Park.

The last couple of years of my church career was, shall I say, brutal.

Years of sectarian conflict and the brutal, so - called caliphate of the Islamic State threaten all Iraqis, not least of all paperless deportees from the United States.

After years of partaking in complementary in - flight meals and dealing with the resulting, brutal stomach aches, I realized that it's the always - questionable food that was making me feel unwell, not so much the elevation as I initially suspected.

After years of partaking in complementary in - flight meals and dealing with the resulting, brutal stomach aches, I...

Last year, during one of my trips in the summer, when the weather was brutal, we stopped to get a pre-dinner snack of ice cream.

From an embattled history, stifling heat, and Mother Nature's brutal blows over the years, rises an incredible, vibrant city full of hope, pride, music, culture, and food.

We may never have a better example of pragmatic, self - critical, publicly humble corporate - lemonade - made - from - the - lemons - of - brutal - focus - group - feedback as the Domino's Pizza campaign from a few years back.

This was, like, a year - and - a-half of tanking, and that was too brutal for me.

Finishing his efforts at Whistling Straits 15 strokes back of 36 - hole leader Matt Jones seemed somehow a fitting close to a brutal year for Woods, but he will hope once again to turn things around in Greensboro (IF he stays committed).

She had years of knowledge and experience on the subject, and she had needed it all, especially with Alex. Her latest problem child had been questioned more than once about a string of rapes in New York City, a brutal series of crimes where the perpetrator gained the confidence of his targets — and intimidated them — by claiming he was a middleweight contender, then employed drugs to subdue his victims and had his way.