Sentences with phrase «close to a decade working»

Costa has spent close to a decade working for the Empowerment Council, which is part of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

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You may argue I'm no expert, but I've been in the news business for close to two decades, working nationally and abroad, so I've stayed in literally hundreds of hotels... from the Soviet - era «Intouristes» to the Mansion at Turtle Creek in Dallas.

Though he'd find acting work, he wouldn't direct another movie for close to a decade.

In his book «My Decade in the Premier League,» he wrote: «The club like us not to go overboard on the eating and drinking in the close - season break, so if I go abroad I like to get into the hotel gym three times a week to work on the treadmill and do some weight work.

After months (well, technically, closer to a decade) of wait for an official Republican plan to replace Obamacare, the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees unleashed legislation dubbed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday that would nix the existing health law's unpopular mandate to buy insurance and pare back its far more popular expansion of Medicaid for the working poor, among other provisions.

«We are far enough from Vancouver and the mountains to get much more sun, but close enough that commuting into work isn't an issue,» says Myron, who has lived in the community for more than two decades.

Some mission organizations or individual missionaries consider a few «creative tactics» to gain admission to a closed country a small price to pay for the greater good of sharing the Gospel — missionaries like D. Due to the sensitive nature of his work, he asked that his name and the mission organization he worked with be withheld, but he has a couple decades of experience on the mission field in closed - off countries.

He also referenced his time in the Assembly where he worked with both sides of the political aisle and pushed proposals that led to real balanced budgets — including the first reduction in state spending in decades while closing a $ 5 billion deficit.

John Faso worked with both sides of the political aisle and pushed proposals that led to real balanced budgets — including the first reduction in state spending in decades while closing a $ 5 billion deficit.

The White House press corps was stunned by reports of a proposal by the Trump administration to eject reporters from their home in the West Wing — a move that, if carried out, would uproot decades of established protocol whereby journalists are allowed to work in the White House close to senior officials.

We can not afford to close the Bronx's very last book store — a store we worked so hard to bring to our community almost two decades ago.

While in the Assembly, he worked with both sides of the political aisle and pushed proposals that led to real balanced budgets — including the first reduction in state spending in decades while closing a $ 5 billion deficit.

he worked with both sides of the political aisle and pushed proposals that led to real balanced budgets — including the first reduction in state spending in decades while closing a $ 5 billion deficit.

In recognising the role of the state, targeting the support of working class people rather than Middle England, and setting out the social obligations owed by businesses, May was rhetorically drawing four decades of neoliberalism to a close.

After three decades of detective work, we could be close to solving the mystery

Scientists are still working to understand the causes of this change, as it takes close to a decade to establish the pace of post-fire regeneration at any given site, and Western wildfires have been growing progressively more severe over the past 25 years.

Although the technology could be moved closer to mainstream art restoration work with enough funding, it is still «extremely expensive» and possibly a decade away from being used consistently, Stringari says.

About two decades ago, Close was working nearly exclusively on dehydrins — a family of proteins that all plants make in response to drought stress or low temperature.

Control basically means it doesn't explode, it just moves along slowly and produces heat and you can then use that heat, and they've been working on this for decades and decades now and getting closer and closer to the point where they're producing actually more energy than they put into the experiment.

Ever since the futuristic cannon enjoyed a public debut at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division in Virginia in November 2016, the Office of Naval Research has been working diligently alongside defense contractors to bring the decade - long program closer to battlefield effectiveness.

Vaijayanti has been a part of the Strand team for close to a decade as a genomics scientist, working on key projects ranging from genomics products such as GeneSpring, pharma consulting, and collaborative research with academic groups in India and abroad.

What I liked most about Carolin is she seemed very down - to - earth; after being a full - time stylist and working with models for close to a decade - trust me, this is something I don't take for granted!!

The film's virtually a solo effort for much of the running time, and Bullock (who won four years back for «The Blind Side «-RRB- is doing something different here from the bulk of her work in the last few decades (you have to go back to «Speed» for its closest counterpart, and there's much greater emotional heft here).

Firstly, three decades after its release, the original film still works, thanks to its (at the time) top - of - line special effects, a series of legitimately gruesome scenes (It is strange that the remake, which has the PG - 13 rating its predecessor helped to usher in, never comes close in that respect), and a much - appreciated sense of humor.

The two - time Oscar nominee has spent her entire life on movie sets; the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, she's worked in front of the camera for close to four decades.

After close to 2 decades in business, Obsidian Learning has made more proposals than we can count, and we've learned a thing or two about what works.

Reville, who founded the Ed Redesign Lab as a way to rethink how we educate children, said that although much education reform work has been done over the past two decades in the United States to close the «achievement gap» created from income disparities, there is still a persistent, iron - clad correlation between zip code and destiny.

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

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.

After three decades of migrating to the coast, the inland population is increasingly working closer...

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.

For close to a decade we have worked to identify qualities of environments that combine to support and nurture teachers» rich, sustained and productive engagement in collaborative inquiry.

«Wisconsin's NAEP results, and those of the past decade plus, show how desperate the need is for us to work together to close opportunity gaps for our kids,» said State Superintendent Tony Evers.

The failure over more than three decades to make any progress in moving more Latino students successfully through college suggests that what we have been doing to close achievement gaps is not working.

In the past two decades, HTML and CSS have worked with browsers to enhance layout, and PDF, a once - closed standard developed by Adobe in 1993, has afforded freedoms on par with print design, with additional security to protect commercial typefaces and private documents.

With a background in traditional publishing by way of Adams Media and Sourcebooks and close to a decade of working directly with authors and small presses, Bethany understands the challenges (and benefits!)

For the next decade he'd work on getting the Kindle closer to what he called the «gold standard»: paper.

It seems to me that in decades past, an author interview almost always included some story of the writer's closeness to either an editor, an agent, or both — patience worn thin, arguments that broke through to epiphanies, real influence on the work by these representatives, whose business, then, lay so much closer to the writing, itself.

Having worked with around 4,000 clients over close to a decade, I have assembled an approach to getting excess holiday spending under control.

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.

Kojima had been working for the Japanese firm for close to three decades and was responsible for several titles such as Policenauts, Zone of the Enders, and of course, the legendary Metal Gear series.

Sega and Sonic Team has struggled to make the original Sonic formula work in 3D for nearly a decade now, but Unleashed comes very close to capturing the essence of what the character needs to be.

I'm a freelance games critic who's been working in the games industry for close to a decade.

Closing weekend of the MCA exhibition, Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen, a career retrospective spanning 5 decades of Ms. Pindell's work as artist and activist.

This is the work of Michele Oka Doner (b1945, Miami Beach), who, now in her fifth decade of artistic practice, has a longstanding interest in nature, the elements, ritual and wanting to make people slow down, stop and take a closer look at the world around them.

This publication showcases five decades of work from Indiana's beginnings in the mid-century New York artist community of Coenties Slip, which included Indiana's close friends Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin, to his chosen remote island home off the coast of Maine, where he has spent the past four decades.

Bunnen has made donations to the High over three decades, most notably in the form of over 650 works by such artists as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Chuck Close, Emmet Gowin, Clarence John Laughlin, Frederick Sommer and Cindy Sherman.

Prior to joining Crystal Bridges in October 2016, Haynes was Associate Curator, Permanent Collection at The Studio Museum in Harlem where she worked for close to a decade.

Entitled Drip, Drape, Draft, the show presents works by Robert Davis, a close friend of Johnson for more than a decade; Angel Otero, who he has known for some six years; and Sam Gilliam, an older artist from what Johnson refers to as «an almost lost generation of black abstract painters», with whom he recently struck up a mutually significant friendship.

The mix of primaries, the swirls closest to abstraction, and the most dizzying works date from the 1960s, the decade of Op Art, Bridget Riley, and psychedelia.