Sentences with phrase «close to a decade when»

The developers at Guerrilla had been working on the Killzone series for close to a decade when the idea for Horizon was first mentioned during a companywide ideas meeting in 2010.

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But, when she returned home after a decade away to be closer to family, she found little demand for her professional expertise.

The company's net debt increased to about 12.5 billion euros ($ 15.6 billion) by the end of March, nearing the level reached a decade ago when former CEO Jean - Marie Messier's acquisition binge left the company close to bankruptcy.

If we continue to close our eyes to existing 8 % of GDP deficits, which when including Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare liabilities compose an average estimated 11 % annual «fiscal gap,» then we will begin to resemble Greece before the turn of the next decade.

More than a decade later, when I was a pastor's wife on the other coast, the people who heard «southern» and «Baptist» seemed to assume that meant «snake handler» and closed the door as quickly as possible.

A leering old villain in a frock, who spent decades conspiring behind closed doors for the position he now holds; a man who believes he is infallible and acts the part; a man whose preaching of scientific falsehood is responsible for the deaths of countless AIDS victims in Africa; a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence: in short, exactly the right man for the job.

But when Isaac Jordan takes the mat for his match, his wiry father — 5» 7 and about 150 pounds, close to what he was three decades ago when he wrestled for Wisconsin — is not in his prime front row seat.

its a sign of intent... lpool are vulnerable at back so klopp brings in a decent centre back... we need that same attitude times 6 if we are to have a team that competes again at the top... but with the delusional corporate tool running things it will be another failed year... thats basically 14 barren years and taking us back closer to the bad old days of the 1960s when we never one a title over the decade

Later, when some coleaders moved away, my current co-leader of somewhere close to a decade, Laurie Belin, stepped forward and agreed to assist, support, advocate, nurture and encourage so many here in Des Moines — along with me.

Looking back to Venezuela's reality of the 1990s, when AD and COPEI closed the ways for new leaders while launching candidates that had been in the game for decades, reminds us that a rigid political system may induce voters to choose outsider candidates.

That's what the Legislature and governor have been doing for decades when it comes to the state budget, ignoring the obvious signs of trouble to the point where the state is close to a financial breakdown — «fundamentally bankrupt» as the governor calls it.

Two decades ago, when Mr. Cuomo was HUD secretary, he hired Mr. Blasio to oversee the New York region for the department; the two, while not close friends, were certainly political allies at the time.

And it had to be done fast, because the best launch opportunity in decades is this month, as Earth passes Mars at perihelion, when the two planets are closest to the sun and to each other.

When thinking about the 50's you have to remember that the 50's (as any decade) varied depending on where you lived and how you were raised - and this movie comes pretty close to what real life was like for these people - they were literally trapped inside a nightmare which they (and their contemporaries) had created - it's no wonder that a few years later their children would be burning their bras and protesting wars.

Meanwhile, «Mystery of Love» came closest to being an indie update on the romantic balladry that has been the category's stock in trade in decades past, but obviously, a love song is not just a love song when it's representing for «Call Me By Your Name.»

But when plans were announced for a second theatrical film, it was with the air of a return, for the character had been mostly untapped in live - action form for close to a decade.

Having served close to a decade in jail, Whitey is back in power in the mid-1970s, when the film opens.

Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades» worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from this one.

After working for more than two decades to close the charter - school funding gap, charter advocates celebrated two victories in 2017 when Colorado and Florida both passed laws — the first in the country — mandating equitable access to certain local tax revenues for charter schools.

School districts and courts would be wise to take steps to officially close cases that are decades old but which frustrate the resolution of current disputes when their long - dormant wounds are reopened.

Especially when you consider that Alabama Republicans in control of state government have worked for the past decade to disenfranchise minority voters through efforts such as closing motor vehicle branches in Black communities, a key way of frustrating voter registration.

I've spent five decades writing poetry, paying close attention to first and last lines, so they do come when I call them.

That a group of women did achieve a family size close to replacement (an average of about 2.1 children is required to insure the same population in the next generation) several decades ago when contraceptive techniques were less sophisticated than even today's unsatisfactory variety is compelling testimony to the fact that lower fertility is attainable even without a revolution in contraceptive technology.

It is not close to a decade since when we are helping students in their assignments.

But along the way, people who have paid for homeowners insurance for decades simply cancel the policy when they close the sale of their home, without giving any thought to how they'll be protected going forward.

So as you can see, there's not much difference between ETFs and closed - end funds, so it's amazing to see little - to - no interest in closed - end funds for decades, and then when ETFs came out, everyone and their uncle just has to use them for everything.

According to the city's own data, when Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada banned «pit bulls» in 1990, there were 214 reported dog bites that year. For the decade following Winnipeg's «pit bull» ban, there were an average of close to 50 more dog bites per year.

The drawings span a fascinating decade in Warhol's artistic development, when he closed the door on his successful graphic - design career to pursue, wholeheartedly, a career as a fine artist.

In the 1960s, Cochrane promoted a new generation of British artists, including first one - person shows for Allen Jones, Peter Kinley and Howard Hodgkin, all of whom continued to show with him into the 1970s when Tooth's merged for a number of years with Waddington Galleries before finally closing at the end of the decade.

Second, I think it is rather perverse to state that there has been no siginificant warming when the past decade was the warmest on record, and when the past year is on track to be close to the warmest on record.

That the climate models are remarkably close to the observed temperature trend over the recent decade, taking into consideration all relevant factors, is an explicit demonstration that we can get this temporary surface temperature slowdown even when the Earth's climate sensitivity is around 3 °C per doubling of CO2.

In his last email exchange, Wallace offers to close out the FOIA because the email string «clarified that your subject paper (and especially the «History» segment of the associated time series pH curve) did not rely upon either data or other contemporary representations for global ocean pH over the period of time between the first decade of 1900 (when the pH metric was first devised, and ocean pH values likely were first instrumentally measured and recorded) through and up to just before 1988.»

But along the way, people who have paid for homeowners insurance for decades simply cancel the policy when they close the sale of their home, without giving any thought to how they'll be protected going forward.

«When young people are investing in the stock market, their behaviors are much closer to how people navigate products like Spotify or Amazon, rather than traditional investing products» says Bhatt [Disclosure: I knew the startup's co-founders from college a decade ago].

Randi Gunther, author of When Love Stumbles: How to Rediscover Love, Trust, and Fulfillment in your Relationship, a clinical psychologist and marriage counselor for more than four decades, gathered 14 core, and somewhat subtle, behaviors of couples whose relationships are deeply connected, and grow closer and more committed over time:

The Real Secrets of a Great Relationship Randi Gunther, author of When Love Stumbles: How to Rediscover Love, Trust, and Fulfillment in your Relationship, a clinical psychologist and marriage counselor for more than four decades, gathered 14 core, and somewhat subtle, behaviors of couples whose relationships are deeply connected, and grow closer and more committed over time: Partners don't... Read more»

Although Yun's estimated 2010 sales volume of 5.7 million is close to what it was in pre-boom 1999, that level is low when the country's population, now 30 million larger than it was a decade ago, is factored in.

The famous AICDC (Attention, Interest, Conviction, Desire, and Close) sales technique — first developed by the Dale Carnegie Professional Sales Course several decades ago — still applies when marketing to Millennials.